176 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL MEETING. 13 



F. Geology.— Rev. E. M. Cole, M.A., F.G.S., Wetwang, presi- 

 dent; Mr.S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., Leeds, and Mr. S. Chadwick, F.G.S., 

 Malton, hon. secretaries ; all re-elected. 



The members then adjourned to the Cafe Royal, Saville Street, 

 where tea was provided. 



The Annual Public Meeting was held at seven o'clock in the 

 Lecture Theatre of the Royal Institution, the chair being occupied 

 by the President, Mr. Henry E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S. The substance 

 of the Annual Report and the Excursion-Programme for 1 890 were 

 announced to the meeting by the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., M.B.O.U., 

 after which the chair was vacated in favour of the Mayor of Hull 

 (Aid. John Sherburn, M.B.), who called upon Mr. Dresser to deliver 

 the annual Presidential Address, entitled 'A few remarks on Natural 

 History, past and present, together with Notes on a recent Trip to 

 Spain.' The President prefaced his remarks by an expression of the 

 extreme gratification it afforded him to preside over a meeting of 

 Yorkshire Naturalists, especially in the town of Hull, for, essentially 

 a Yorkshireman (as not a drop of blood flows in his veins but what 

 is pure Yorkshire) he was half a Hull man, and spent some of his 

 earlier days in that town. He then proceeded to give a short sketch 

 of the gradual growth of the Study of Natural History, and more 

 especially of Ornithology, to the study of which he had from 

 childhood devoted his spare time. 



At the conclusion of the address a vote of thanks, proposed by 

 Dr. Lambert and seconded by Dr. Walton, was unanimously passed 

 to the President, as was also a cordial vote of thanks to the Hull 

 Societies for their kind and hospitable reception. 



A hearty vote of thanks, accorded to the Mayor of Hull, brought 

 the proceedings to a close. — E.R.W. 



June i8go. 



